Having spent the night on this pool on Campfield Marsh RSPB Reserve, the calm of early morning gave way to a strengthening wind. The swans started to take off in to it in small groups, to find grazing on the surrounding grassy farmland.

A group of these swans had come in overnight and spent the next morning on this pool at North Plain Farm, Campfield Marsh RSPB Reserve. They were here seen happily preening and dibbling for weed from the bottom of the pool. Up to 200 + had been using the various pools about this time, flighting in at...